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- Titi Livi ab urbe condita libri editionem priman, Pars I-IV, Libri I-XL. Editio Stereotypica. Weissenborn, Wilhelm; Mueller, Moritz, editors. Leipzig: Teubner, 1884-1911.
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The passage records the cheap price of grain and the celebrations of various games, followed by the special resolutions passed by the senate and assemblies for the elected aediles who could not immediately assume office due to priesthood or absence.
annona quoque eo anno pervilis fuit; frumenti vim magnam ex Africa advectam aediles curules M. Claudius Marcellus et Sex. Aelius Paetus binis aeris in modios1 populo diviserunt.
In that year also, the price of grain was very cheap; the curule aediles, Marcus Claudius Marcellus and Sextus Aelius Paetus, distributed to the people a great quantity of grain imported from Africa, at two asses per modius.
et ludos Romanos magno apparatu fecerunt; diem unum instaurarunt; signa aenea quinque ex multaticio argento in aerario posuerunt.
They also celebrated the Roman Games with great splendor; they repeated them for one day; and they placed five bronze statues, paid for with money from fines, in the treasury.
plebeii ludi ab aedilibus L. Terentio Massiliota et Cn. Baebio Tamphilo, qui praetor designatus erat, ter toti instaurati.
The Plebeian Games were entirely repeated three times by the aediles Lucius Terentius Massiliota and Gnaeus Baebius Tamphilus, who had been elected praetor.
et ludi funebres eo anno per quadriduum in foro mortis causa M. Valeri Laevini a Publio et Marco filiis eius facti, et munus gladiatorium datum ab iis;
Also in that year, funeral games were celebrated in the forum for four days because of the death of Marcus Valerius Laevinus, by his sons Publius and Marcus, and a gladiatorial show was given by them;
paria quinque et viginti pugnarunt. M. Aurelius Cotta decemvir sacrorum mortuus; in eius locum M’. Acilius Glabrio suffectus.
twenty-five pairs fought. Marcus Aurelius Cotta, a decemvir for sacred rites, died; in his place Manius Acilius Glabrio was co-opted.
comitiis aediles curules creati sunt forte ambo, qui statim occipere magistratum non possent. nam C. Cornelius Cethegus absens creatus erat, cum Hispaniam obtineret provinciam;
At the elections, it happened that both curule aediles elected were unable to take office immediately. For Gaius Cornelius Cethegus was elected in his absence while he was governing the province of Spain;
C. Valerius Flaccus, quem praesentem creaverant, quia flamen Dialis erat, iurare in leges non poterat; magistratum autem plus quinque dies, nisi qui iurasset in leges,2 non licebat gerere.
Gaius Valerius Flaccus, whom they had elected in his presence, was unable to take the oath of office because he was the Flamen Dialis; and it was not permitted to hold a magistracy for more than five days unless one had taken the oath.
petente Flacco, ut legibus solveretur, senatus decrevit, ut, si aedilis, qui pro se iuraret, arbitratu consulum daret, consules, si iis videretur, cum tribunis plebis agerent, uti ad plebem ferrent.
Upon Flaccus petitioning to be exempted from the law, the senate decreed that if the aedile should present someone to take the oath on his behalf with the approval of the consuls, the consuls, if they saw fit, should negotiate with the tribunes of the plebs to bring a proposal before the plebeian assembly.
datus, qui iuraret pro fratre, L. Valerius Flaccus, praetor designatus. tribuni ad plebem tulerunt, plebesque scivit, ut perinde esset, ac si ipse aedilis iurasset. et de altero aedile scitum plebi est factum; rogantibus tribunis, quos duos in Hispaniam cum imperio ad exercitus ire iuberent, ut C. Cornelius aedilis curulis ad magistratum gerendum veniret, et L. Manlius Acidinus decederet de provincia multos post annos, plebes Cn. Cornelio Lentulo et L. Stertinio pro consulibus imperium esse in Hispania iussit.3
Lucius Valerius Flaccus, the praetor-elect, was given to take the oath for his brother. The tribunes brought the matter before the plebs, and the plebeians resolved that it should be just as if the aedile himself had taken the oath. A plebiscit was also made concerning the other aedile; when the tribunes asked whom they should order to go with imperium to the armies in Spain, so that Gaius Cornelius, the curule aedile, might come to enter upon his magistracy, and Lucius Manlius Acidinus might depart from the province after many years, the plebs ordered that Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus and Lucius Stertinius should have imperium in Spain as proconsuls.
- 31.50.1binis aeris in modios
The distributive numeral binis combined with the ablative of price aeris (asses) and the prepositional phrase in modios indicates the rate of price: "at two asses per modius."
- 31.50.7plus quinque dies, nisi qui iurasset in leges
plus is used adverbially without quam modifying the accusative of duration quinque dies ("more than five days"). nisi qui stands for nisi is qui ("unless he who..."). The pluperfect subjunctive iurasset (syncopated from iuravisset) is due to the sequence of tenses after the past verb non licebat, representing a future-perfect condition from a past viewpoint.
- 31.50.10rogantibus tribunis, quos duos in Hispaniam cum imperio ad exercitus ire iuberent, ut C. Cornelius aedilis curulis ad magistratum gerendum veniret, et L. Manlius Acidinus decederet de provincia multos post annos, plebes Cn. Cornelio Lentulo et L. Stertinio pro consulibus imperium esse in Hispania iussit.
A highly complex sentence spanning sections 10-11. rogantibus tribunis is an ablative absolute governing the indirect question quos... iuberent. The clause ut... veniret... et... decederet expresses the purpose or purpose-result of the resolution (to enable Cornelius to return to Rome to assume office and Acidinus to depart). The main clause is plebes... iussit, which governs the accusative with infinitive construction Cn. Cornelio... imperium esse.